...The Manhattan Project was a top secret project during World War II conducted by the United States, Great Britain, and Canada to develop the first nuclear weapon (the atomic bomb). Once President Truman was informed of the Manhattan Project, he formed a committee to research and discuss the most effective way to use the bomb to shock Japan into surrendering. Based upon the massive loss of lives suffered by both the United States and Japan on Iwo Jima and Okinawa, President Truman knew that it was unlikely that Japan would surrender unconditionally as demanded by the Potsdam Declaration without an invasion of Japan itself. After conferring with advisers, President Truman considered, but ultimately rejected several alternatives to using the bomb....
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...possibilities of the sustained nuclear reaction could be produced and constructed in to a very powerful bombs. He also told him how German had already exported uranium from the Czech mines to their new territory. With in a month Roosevelt had a team of researchers working on nuclear weapons before Germany and Japan could make their. The Manhattan project is an industrial complex in New Mexico; thousands of the West’s...
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...this day is greatly disputed to this day along the theological, moral and political implications on the United States as a country. As I researched this topic trying to formulate a decisive opinion I could not help but be in conflict with myself. On the one hand American lives were being lost in the Pacific theater on a large scale and would surely continue to be lost at the hands of the determined Japanese as long as the conflict continued. On the other hand the number of civilian lives and sheer destruction that was inflicted upon the innocent civilian population of Japan is very difficult to come terms with. Where is the line in the sand? Does the end result of victory and national security justify...
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...The Manhattan Project, the program behind the development of the first nuclear weapons, affected the world greatly in many ways. The Manhattan Project was a secret, $2 billion project created by the U.S. The project was so secretive that only 6 of the scientists knew the nature of the manhattan project; Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Harold Urey. The people working on it were forbidden to speak about anything involving this, military security guarded the grounds, and the communications in and out were monitored. In 1939, the U.S. was warned that Nazi scientists had split an atom and could use that to build an atomic bomb. The U.S. started the top-secret program known as the manhattan project, it was named this after the Manhattan Engineering district of the War Department which was where it began....
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...One of man’s most devastating weapons, The Atom Bomb. The first time this particular weapon was used for warfare was during World War II when the United States bombed both Hiroshima and Nagasaki just days apart in August 1945. Where did this monstrosity originate? Via the “Manhattan Project”.The Manhattan Project was a combination of the United States’ financial, scientific, industrial, and technological might to produce the ultimate weapon...The Atom Bomb. [ae] “The Manhattan Project was committed to expediting research that would produce a viable Atomic Bomb.” The first and most difficult step towards the creation of the “A bomb” was the production of “enriched” uranium- to create a chain reaction. Back then, extracting that kind...
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...took many people to keep it a secret many hours and test to create it. Many of the tests were conducted mainly by the scientists Fermi Hahn and Strassman. They had to help the USA they were scared that germany could make such weapons and cause genocide. They discovered that you could split uranium. Doctor Hahn and Strassman found out that if you hit the uranium nucleus with neutrons it would split and release vast amounts of energy. Their fears were coming true they found out the Germany could possible be testing nuclear weapons because they stopped shipping out their uranium at the beginning of the war. In my paper I will explain how and why the atomic bomb ended the war between the United states and Japan. The atomic bomb was essentially what ended the war for the USA. We had gone on several bombing runs against Japan but it was not enough for Japan to Surrender The nuke was necessary and needed or the war would not have ended in 1945....
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...Unit 731, chemical weapon subject When Japanese Imperial Army took metal, they also took young female for their own purposes. First of all, high ranking officers of the Japanese Imperial army did biological experiments for their baleful chemical weapons like poison gas and burned the people in Manchuria. For example, Dissection of the person with reveal disease is to check how disease influence the person by seeing the stomachs, heart, and liver. Japanese soldiers cut the arms and legs for researching how haemorrhaging effects the person. Some body parts were iced for researching decomposition of the body part when person is alive. Some of the people’s brains and lungs, livers were removed. They removed whole skin from a...
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...Many kinds of weapons were used in the Second World War. And of those weapons, many of them were brand new technology, developed for the war. The countries in this war all had their own special branches of technology, and used them to create weapons of destruction, ensuring their winning the battle, and bringing their soldiers home. There were three large contributors to the weapons front of the war: Small Arms, Tanks, and the Atomic Bomb. In this paper, I will explain what those weapons were, what they did, and how they fared on the battlefield. Many of the weapons in the war were small arms, used for combat between people. One of the most common small arms were pistols (World War 2 Weapons). However, they were extremely ineffective, and were only used at close range. The U.S. had some of the best pistols carried, an m1911 (World War 2 Weapons). Pistols were carried by tank crews, infantry officers, and pilots in case of an emergency. The different countries had different pistols, with the U.S. having the best one and Japan having one of the worst. Rifles were also used extensively in the war. However, many people went into battle carrying WWI rifles, which did not work as well as the newer versions....
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...An atomic bomb is a weapon with great explosive power that results from the sudden release of energy upon the splitting, or fission, of the nuclei of such heavy elements as plutonium or uranium. (Encyclopædia Britannica, 2016) This catastrophic bomb was used twice during World War II. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped its first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb was known as "Little Boy", a uranium gun-type bomb that exploded with about thirteen kilotons of force. Three days after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, a twenty one kiloton plutonium device known as "Fat Man.”(Atomic Heritage Foundation, 2012) This paper will discuss the creation and use of the first two atomic bombs. Early in 1939, German physicists had learned the secrets of splitting a uranium atom. Fears soon spread over the possibility of Nazi scientists utilizing that energy to produce a bomb capable of unspeakable destruction. Scientists Albert Einstein, who fled Nazi persecution, and Enrico Fermi, who escaped Fascist Italy, were now living in the United States. They agreed that President Franklin Roosevelt, must be informed of the dangers of atomic technology in the hands of the Axis powers. In late 1941, the American started to design and build an atomic bomb, which later received its code name, the Manhattan Project, which was named after one of the initial sites of research, Columbia University...
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...Why did the USA get involved in Asia in 1950? (30) After the end of the Second World War, the two war time allies the USA and Soviet Union became involved in a war of ideologies, the cold war. The US saw communism as a threat to democracy and capitalism. Therefore the US set out a new foreign policy, the policy of containment, in the Truman doctrine. There were however other reasons for the USA’s involvement such as their military confidence, UN agreement, domestic pressure which called for Truman to be more tough on communism and their economic interest in Japan which led to the US government’s decision to intervene in the Korean War. One of the main reasons for the US’s involvement was due to the ‘Policy of Containment’. The aim was for the USA to work with its allies to contain the spread of communism in eastern Europe and Asia using political, economic and if necessary military pressure to prevent the spread of the every growing ideology of communism. The US’s main worry was the communism would spread as most of the eastern European countries were devastated by the war were weak and communism could easily spread through these weakened countries such as Hungary. Europe was divided by ‘an Iron curtain’, the west with capitalism views, and the east with growing communism views. Furthermore, China had fallen to Communism under Mao, which may have been a huge wake up call for President Truman. In addition, Mao had signed the treaty of friendship with Stalin; therefore the spread...
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...September 2, 1945, the turning point of the United States war on Japan came three years prior. On June 4th, 1942, the US met Japan at the Battle of Midway, in a naval fight that would ultimately decide the fate of the South Pacific. In charge of their respective fleets, Isoroku Yamamoto (Japan) and Chester Nimitz (USA), each shared similar backgrounds. Both Yamamoto and Nimitz entered their respective countries’ naval academy at the age of seventeen. The men each rose prominently to positions of great control, realizing the growing importance of aircraft carrier warfare. At 44, Yamamoto became Japan’s youngest admiral. Armed with the task of creating a self-sustaining empire (the “New Empire”), Yamamoto decided to bomb Pearl Harbor and subsequently attack Midway in attempt to gain control over the Pacific. Prior to Yamamoto’s attack, the United States developed a secret weapon against the Japanese. The United States’ weapon, “Magic”, was a system that deciphered Japanese code. By the end of May 1942, Chester Nimitz knew exactly when and where the Japanese intended to strike. Nimitz realized he must locate Yamamoto’s carriers and attack them first for any chance of victory. Yamamoto ended up becoming decidedly shorthanded by the concurrent Army mission that depleted much of his task force, not to mention three loaned aircraft carriers, at the Battle of Midway. Despite fighting at less than full strength, Japan was positioned to win the battle after destroying 35 of the...
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...In the village, surround by the huge mountain up north of Okinawa, Japan, there was one family that expert with making silk. They had continued and developed the traditional technique of farming silk worms and making fabric almost thousand years. Miyamoto Hakama was thf spying and assassination. Hakama did not want his secret to be in hand of the bad people, so he never told anyone even his wife and his daughter because he was afraid that his family will be in danger. On the way to his silk worm house, Hakama realized that there was someone was after him. That guy wanted to know his secret. Hakama changed his direction and he was still being followed. Turn right on the corner of the street. There were only his foot prints on the snow. The stranger guy had no clue where Hakama was. Felling that his family may not be harmed, Hakama headed home immediately. In the house Hakama was shocked to his family was captured by Fokushī Kaizokudan’s Ninja. Fokushi was the merchant who run the business and had the relationship with many underground organizations. Fokushi was also the head of Zodiac Ninjutsu Dojo which was known that as the training of assassins. This dojo involved in many unsolved incidents such the death of Ibahara Family that were expertize in katana making. Fokushi wanted to create the strongest ninja force with the high end weapon and gears. He already got the secret of making the katana. Then he wanted his force to be protected by the uncutable armor made by Hakama...
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...Beside the bombs, Truman and other leaders were planning a massive Allied Invasion of the Japanese islands; the plan was named “Operation Downfall”. Operation Downfall consisted of the invasion of the southernmost main Japanese Island, Kyushu, and the Japanese island of Honshu ("Operation Downfall — The Campaign to Conquer Japan Would Have Dwarfed the D-Day Landings" 2012). It is certainly impossible to know how many lives would have been lost if the invasion would have happened. With the detonation of the atomic bomb, consequences for the future were brought to light. Consequences such as other countries having the same weapons as the U.S in future battles. Leaders from many countries were astonished by the amount of damage the Nuclear Bomb made, they also started working on their own nuclear weapons. Although agreements were reached such as the banning of Nuclear weapons, there is no telling what the future holds, changes can be made or the agreements can be broken and ignored...
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...Aftermath of a World War War has always had an impact on those in involved and others who are not. These impacts can affect everything as the forces at war clash. The countries go into overdrive and attempt to gain the upper hand in some way. Whether it is through technological advances, new weapons, or supplies. After any war has ended, there continues to be some impact, such as new borders, technologies, consequences for the losing side, and the rise of a new leader. World War 1 impacted the world in various ways, such as new technology, weapons, and economical and political problems. During the first war, a new type of weapon that is still used today was first introduced. The first tank to be introduced was the British Mark I, which was designed in 1915 (Mental Floss). The British Mark I intended to cross no man’s land and avoid being shredded by the power of the machines guns from the opposing side. These new armored vehicles proved successful and were improved and used more frequently throughout history. Another form of technology and weapon in the first World War was called the interrupter gear. The interrupter gear was used during air combat and allowed machine guns to be fired without the damaging the aircrafts propeller. This invention allowed for the pilots to fire between the blades of a spinning propeller (Mental Floss). These inventions were later updated or improved upon and used in future wars. The final outcome of the first World War was the defeat of Germany...
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...right decision and how could this massive power be so concentrated? There are many things that must be taken into account when making a decision of this magnitude and then later when reflecting on the action taken. Truman debated whether or not to drop the Atomic Bomb, and after the decision was made Americans began to question whether dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan was the “right” choice or not. Not too long before, there had been a debate within the United States on whether or not to enter the war. On December 7th, 1941, just before 8 o’clock am, the American naval base at Pearl Harbor was attacked by hundreds of Japanese fighter planes. The day after, FDR asked Congress to declare war, and the United States entered World War II (CITATION). This decision eventually leads to...
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